Steve The Bunny - Easter Bonus!

Last Easter I was kind of obsessed with finding bunny ears for the dogs, but couldn't justify spending more than a few dollars on them. I ended up buying some after Easter, and finding a few more pairs at the thrift store a few months ago so I've been waiting for this moment for a while. Enjoy the cutest bunny dog in the entire world sitting in front of some lovely flowers around Woodland Cemetery :)

Blissful Bunny :)

35mm Black and White Dogs

A long time ago I picked up a Minolta camera from a thrift store, just because I liked the vintage strap. Little did I know that I’d fall in love with it, and end up using it for a photography class later. I let it collect dust for two or three years though because the battery died, but last month I finally remembered to pick one up from Dodd Camera and I was back in business. Oh how I love this camera, I don’t know why I didn’t get a battery sooner! I had film left over in it from said photography class so I didn’t know how it would turn out because it was most likely expired film. I took it out shooting for a family excursion when Sonny came home!
Sonny is Charmin(the family dog)’s son! Mom “pimped him out” as she likes to say haha, and found him a nice lady lab on the internet. One thing led to another of course and just in time for the christmas season a litter was born! Mom opted for pick of the litter of course, because Charmin is such a wonderful dog they wanted his next of kin, and Sonny(named because he is Charmin’s son, and his color is sunny) was the lucky guy.
It was one of those nice sunny warm December days, and we all went for a walk out on my uncle’s land which is basically in the middle of nowhere. I brought my camera along and quickly powered though the whole reel. 

These are my favorite shots:

Steve by the Water

Global warming gave us an awesome December, I’m not gonna lie. Wearing a denim jacket and a scarf in 60-something degree weather ruled. I took Steve to the dog park downtown one of those warm days, and after wards we explored a bike path down by the river. As we got close to the dam, Steve got really nervous. I think the loudness of the water freaked him out. It was impossible to get him to sit so I could take a nice photo of him so I got this silly one which I posted to instagram and captioned it what I imagined he was thinking, which was “Mom, I don’t very much want to sit here” haha. It was nice to get some of his endless energy out by playing outside! It’s so much colder now, I don’t ever want to leave the house unless I have to haha.

Terrier Time

My coworker Brenden has an awesome pitbull named Burnie who he occasionally brings to the shop on his days off. For the longest time we’d been talking about meeting at the dog park and letting him frolic with Steve and we finally got around to it a couple weeks ago!

Steve did pretty well I was proud of him. He is a little skittish around other dogs sometimes and tends to not do well with dominant dogs. I think it’s due to whatever rough beginnings he had before he wandered into my life. But he mostly just played with a tennis ball and behaved himself. Burnie wanted to play with him so bad, and they had a tug of war moment which was funny. It was clear neither side was willing to let go though so Brenden intervened. Here’s some shots of terrier time!

Two pooped pups after their adventure together!

The Great Garden Hose Battle

Okay forewarning kinda-  this post is going to be image heavy so I apologize to all of your computers- but all of these photos are gems and it was hard enough to narrow it down to these.

It has been hotter than blue blazes in Ohio this past week, and muggy as all get out, so I was trying to find the sprinklerin the basement so the dogs could frolic in the water and cool down. I knew Steve would be game because I squirted the hose at him once and he was ready to play. Bufford I figured would hang out on the porch and watch because he is dainty and hates to get wet or muddy. Well we couldn't find it, and we being extra counter productive(we were planning on cleaning the house, not destroying the basement to find a sprinkler), so Jared just headed out back and pulled out the hose and a water war broke out! Steve Stephens vs. the hose. It was hysterical! Steve kept forgetting or maybe didn't realize that Jared was controlling the hose and kept lunging at it as he snapped at the water. He looked so silly and happy. I'm editing together a highlight reel of clips of video I took of him too. Okay without further ado, here's some of the photos I snapped.(by the way it took me a minute but I figured out how to up my shutter speed, but it kinda made all of my photos dull in color. I should reed my camera manual probably...)

Derp.

Gulp!

Haha, this looks like some weird version of those water squirting games they have at fairs and festivals.

Haha, yeah right.